Hasn't everyone had a moment where all of a sudden they feel very mature or closer to adolecense? I think a lot of kids have felt more grown up than they are at some point in their lives. And what makes them feel like this? Usually it's responsibility that makes them feel more mature. For example if your mom asks you to babysit your younger sibling or lets you stay home alone, that could give you that feeling of responsibility. Responsibility plays a big part in peoples lives and it's what helps kids become more experienced and more sophisticated or mature.
Francie and Neeley are living in the early and 1900's. In that time period kids had to take on a lot more responsibility than kids do now. Many people used horses and buggies and many people were poor, and especially the poor kids took on more responsibility. They went to the market and bought all of the food for their parents pretty much everyday, and a lot of them, during hard times, had to work a small job so their family could have enough food to eat and enough money to pay the bills. Kids were given so much more responsibility in that time than they are now. They also went to work around when they were fourteen, and now people don't get a real job until they're atleast about twenty-one.
Responsibility played a bigger part in their lives, and they also usually became more mature and got jobs faster then. They were considered adults at a younger age, and I think that it's because they took on more responsibilities when they were younger so they became more mature faster. Kids now have less responsibilities, they're considered adults later, and they usually take longer to mature, and this is because of responsibity.
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